If you are new to baking, like me, this upside down banana cake is a fabulous cake to include to your list of baking ideas! It’s easy to prep, looks fantastic, and tastes gorgeous!

Upside Down Banana Cake

Bananas coated with a delicious caramel topping forms the heart and soul of this cake.

Imagine cutting through the top layer of caramel and banana, followed by the soft and spongy cake, and scooping it out all at once in a spoonful! The explosion of flavours when they melt in your mouth, that’s what you have to visualise to get cracking.

This is a super-easy cake to bake! Making a caramel sauce and placing sliced bananas is the first part of this recipe.

Upside Down Banana Cake – Look at those bananas in caramel!

Then comes the difficult part – beating eggs and castor sugar! You have to beat eggs and castor sugar with the vanilla extract like your life depends on it. I don’t have an electric whisk. I had to resort to the classic method of beating as much as you can! After the tasting the final result, I can proudly say that I managed to get enough air into the mix.

Sift baking powder and all-purpose flour and fold to the egg-castor sugar mix. Fold in some melted butter as well, and we are done with the cake mix. Pour this into the baking tin which is already lined with caramel and sliced bananas. Bake for 45 minutes at 160 degrees Celcius.

Check out the recipe below. This recipe is my version of a brilliant banana upside down cake from Donna Hay! If you like this recipe, don’t forget to check out my Caramel Custard and Bread and Butter Pudding recipes as well.

Hi Rasana,
I have found something for you. Finally! 🙂
You could substitute butter with buttermilk or a thick yogurt (like Greek yogurt). For one portion of butter, replace with 1/2 portion buttermilk or yogurt.

All-purpose flour is a little more tricky. Almond flour is mentioned in many recipes, but I am not sure if it’s easily available in India. You could try whole wheat flour. Problem is, it could make the cake dense! Use less than 3/4th of all-purpose flour measurement.

And a disclaimer – I haven’t tried any of these yet, but based on research I feel the aforesaid options will do justice to the recipe!! 🙂 🙂